Three days left?
Study the right things, not everything.
Behind on a chapter, with the exam close? Drop it in and turn on Fast learning — Ritsu builds the plan around the vital few, finds exactly where you're weak from a quick quiz, and drills those gaps first, so your last hours go to the 20% that decides the grade.
The cram trap
Panic makes you study everything. That's why you run out of time.
You start at page one and read straight through — and spend your freshest hours on the opening you already understood. The hard part, the reason the material is hard, is still waiting when the clock runs out.
You've got one dense chapter — or a deck you never really studied — and not much time. So you open it at page one and start reading, because that's what you do. You reread. You highlight. For the first hour it even feels like studying.
But reading in order has a fatal default: the easy parts come first. You spend your best, freshest hour re-learning the setup you already half-knew, and by the time you reach the part that's actually going to be tested — the hard part, the reason it's hard — you're tired and nearly out of time. “Thirty hours on forty percent of the material.” The problem was never that you're short on time. It's that you spent it on the part you already had.
There's a faster way through: stop reading it in order. Go straight to the parts that matter, and the parts you don't know yet.
The workflow
Not everything in the chapter. The things it's actually built on.
01 · The plan collapses to the vital few
Turn on Fast learning
One setting. Instead of walking the whole document evenly, Ritsu builds the plan around the vital few — the load-bearing ideas the rest depends on. The 80/20 of the chapter, first.
Distilled to the point
Each idea, stripped to the single insight that makes it click — not a full lecture, the version you can hold under pressure.
A quick quiz shows what's missing
Take one short quiz. Ritsu scores every concept — and the dim ones are exactly what you don't have yet. No guessing which parts you're weak on.
/adaptive drills the gaps
Now the part no highlighter can do: Ritsu takes your weakest concepts and drills only those — reordering as you improve, closing the real gaps first instead of marching through what you already knew.
Only the hard part, only until it's yours
You spend your remaining hours where they move the needle — the concepts that were going to cost you marks — not re-reading the intro for the third time.
Lock it in before it fades
One click puts each concept on a spaced-review schedule, so what you crammed today is still there when the exam arrives.
That's the difference between studying hard and studying smart under a deadline — the same hours, aimed at the 20% that decides the grade.
Pedagogy, packaged
Every command packs a proven learning method.
Fast doesn't mean shallow. When you have time for one pass, these are the six that make it stick — each asking more of you than the last.
Understand
The core idea first, then the layers — built from the chapter you're cramming.
Recall
Retrieval practice: the most proven way to make it stick. Pull it back out, cold.
Drill
The parts that have to be automatic, turned into cards you'll actually run.
Explain back
The Feynman test. Say it in your own words — that's where the gaps show.
Apply
A real problem on the real concept. Knowing it and using it aren't the same.
Create
Write it out in full. The highest bar there is: if you can write it, it's yours.
That's Bloom's taxonomy, climbed one command at a time. And the science isn't a slogan — it's a flag on the command:
/quiz --bloom="auto"
40+ commands, all built like this.
Knowledge Map
You always know exactly where you stand.
When you're cramming, the worst feeling is not knowing whether you're ready. Ritsu scores every concept as you work, so “am I going to be okay?” turns into a list — these you've got, these you don't, drill these next.
Every concept, scored.
Not “chapter done” — a mastery score per idea, so you know what's actually solid.
Dim = drill this next.
Your weak spots, named and ordered — the exact list /adaptive works through.
Ready, at a glance.
When the map's lit, you're not hoping you're ready. You can see it.
Spaced review
Crammed today. Still there on exam day.
Crammed knowledge fades fastest of all — Ebbinghaus measured the drop in 1885, and three days of intense study is exactly the kind that evaporates. Ritsu brings each concept back right before it goes, so the cram actually survives to the exam.
Five minutes tonight. Three tomorrow. Two in three days.
Built from your chapters — no cards to make.
When you're stuck
The moments you actually get stuck — and what to type.
You don't have to. Turn on Fast learning and Ritsu builds the plan around the vital few — the load-bearing ideas the rest hangs on — so you learn the 20% that carries the grade first.
Chapter 5 · Supply & Demand
covered where it counts
Out of time isn't out of options.
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